Murtaza Bhutto

MEDICAL BOARD TO EXAMINE CLIFTON SHO
KARACHI, Sept 24, 1996: The Sindh government has constituted a special
medical board to determine within 24 hours whether the wounds suffered by
Clifton SHO Haq Nawaz Siayal were self-inflicted or otherwise.
According to the Sindh health department, the board, which comprises Karim
Siddiqui, professor of surgery, DMC; Mateen Ahmed Khan, professor of
radiology, DMC; and Dr Nizamuddin Memon, police surgeon, has been
constituted at the request of Ghinwa Bhutto, the wife of the late Murtaza
Bhutto.
The Sindh government has also directed SSP, South, to produce the Clifton
SHO before the board on Sept 25.
PROBE BODY: The level and composition of the judicial commission, set up
to inquire into the circumstances of the violent death of Murtaza Bhutto , is
expected to be revamped following a meeting at Bilawal House on Monday
night, which was presided over by Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, sources
said.
Chief Minister Syed Abdullah Shah, Sindh PPP President Syed Qaim Ali
Shah, Sindh police chief and DIG, Karachi, accompanied the prime minister
when she left the city for Islamabad on Tuesday afternoon.
The departure of senior police officials for Islamabad has given rise to many
speculations. At the Bilawal House meeting, the sources said, the chief
minister, the Sindh PPP chief and the advocate-general, Sindh, were also
present.
During the meeting, various aspects of Friday's incident were discussed, and
suggestions for enlarging the composition of inquiry commission were
offered, the sources said. The meeting also discussed the suggestion that the
judicial commission should comprise three judges instead of one, the sources
added.
Some political circles have demanded inquiry by a commission headed by a
judge of the Supreme Court.
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